SBS FAQ - Wayne Small - SBS MVP : Troubleshooting

Port 48195 – increased attacks

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:51:26 GMT

Body: I was onsite today with a client and they still use Scorpion Softwares Firewall Dashboard product to monitor their ISA 2004 server. The morning report came in and it showed that from some time yesterday there had been a massive increase in the attacks...(read more)

How to mess up your network with virtualisation…

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:12:41 GMT

Body: Got a call from a friend yesterday. He had some problems with his network which essentially revolved around Active Directory being messed up. The exact details are a little unclear, but the long and short of it was that around a week back, their...(read more)

Kyocera Print Mode Error from Outlook 2007

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:02:31 GMT

Body: Last week my accountant called me with a problem. He was having problems “printing anything to the Kyocera printer”. He has a Kyocera Mita KM-1650 KX printer connected to his SBS 2003 Server via the network. All users print to this main printer...(read more)

What is WHEA_Logger?

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:16:29 GMT

Body: One of my clients servers stopped working over the weekend – literally just stopped. We could not login via the console, remote connectivity was unresponsive. We had to power cycle the system to get it running again. After it came up, I began to...(read more)

Netgear WGR 614 Router Config Tip

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:07:54 GMT

Body: I had to program a Netgear WGR614 Router last Thursday and the normal http://routerlogin.net would not work. Most frustrating indeed. I did some searching and found that if I did a hard reboot of the router and then went to http://192.168.1.1/basicsetting...(read more)

Strange folder names during SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration?

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:25:57 GMT

Body: I was doing an SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 Migration last week and had something very strange happened. I had a directory called Network Data that literally disappeared. Below you can see the Windows Explorer view shows no trace of the Network Data directory...(read more)

Thank you Steve Cooper!

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:09:46 GMT

Body: Steve Cooper is the local Aussie Director for PSS, and for years I've been berating... err suggesting to him that here needs to be a better way for us to get a hotfix than to call Microsoft all the time. Well there is - and has been for some...(read more)

Exchange 2003 mail getting lost???

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:05:37 GMT

Body: I've had an ongoing scenario on my SBS 2003 server that I've never fully investigated in which mail to some yahoogroups gets "lost". You check the SMTP queues and it's not there so you believe it's gone out. Then later...(read more)

How to remove Antivirus 2008

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:57:08 GMT

Body: I had a migraine yesterday - a pretty severe one that lasted 12hours plus. So today I was off to the Doctors to figure out what it was and get some drugs to deal with it again. Ok - so then I went to the Pharmacy to get the prescription filled....(read more)

USB Flash Drive not working on Windows Vista?

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:48:16 GMT

Body: I picked up a 16G Corsair Flash Voyager when I was in the US last month from Frys. It worked fine on my laptop but refused to work on my desktop. Instead I got the dialog box on below requesting drivers for it. Naturally I didn't have drivers...(read more)

What is C:\Windows\Installer and why does it take up so much space?

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:28:39 GMT

Body: On one of my servers, I got a low disk space alert today for the C: drive. This server hosts a number of websites including this blog so I was somewhat puzzled as to what would consume so much space. The C: drive on this server is 30GB in size....(read more)

Interesting W2003 SP2 Side Effect

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:14:29 GMT

Body: I was onsite earlier this week helping out a friend with his SBS 2003 installation. He had done the install himself and all things looked pretty much ok. He had applied W2003 Service Pack 2 as well. I showed him how to setup computers and all worked...(read more)

Moving SBS2003 from a 5yr old server to a new one using StorageCraft

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:56:57 GMT

Body: We normally do a swing migration for many of our clients when we upgrade from one server to another. This has the effect of minimising the downtime to the client and at the same time having a new server in place that's faster and cleaner than...(read more)

Exchange 2003 to 2007 Migration issues – mail stops flowing.

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:19:27 GMT

Body: We're in the middle of migrating one of our clients from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. As part of that we currently have both Exchange servers in the domain and therefore some users on one version and some of the other version. Today we got...(read more)

WSUS 2.0 synchronises but will not download content

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:32:52 GMT

Body: Onsite today and I was checking a WSUS 2.0 server to ensure that I approved any waiting patches etc. I found that the WSUS server had stalled in the download process. It could synchronise successfully, but it sat at Downloading 0.00MB of xx MB....(read more)

How to diagnose a Network Port problem.

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:49:02 GMT

Body: Today I was onsite with one of my clients and experienced a strange problem with one PC that was being ghosted from an image. The client runs a chain of retail outlets and when they open a new outlet they use Ghost to prepare a machine based on...(read more)

GFI Webmonitor for ISA v3.0 to v4.0 Upgrade may cause very slow internet access for users

SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:17:32 GMT

Body: Today I've done an inplace upgrade for a customers ISA 2004 server up to ISA 2006 – the upgrade itself went well once we removed the Firewall Client Share in ISA 2004. The client uses GFI's Webmonitor for ISA Server to monitor their users...(read more)